Editing Bone-Dry Dunes

{{race course infobox
|title=Bone-Dry Dunes<br><small>Bone Dry Dunes</small>
|image=[[File:MK8-Course-Bone-DryDunes.png|300px]]
|appears_in=''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' ([[List of games by date#2014|2014]])<br>''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' ([[List of games by date#2017|2017]])
|cups=[[Special Cup]]
|ghost={{ghost|8|Nin★Elena|2:13.391|[[File:MK8 Morton Icon.png|32px|link=Morton Koopa Jr.|Morton]][[File:TrispeederBodyMK8.png|32px|link=Tri-Speeder]][[File:MonsterTiresMK8.png|32px|Monster (tire)|Monster]][[File:MK8ThumbMortonSG.png|32px|link=Super Glider]]}}{{ghost|8DX <small>150cc</small>|Nin★Elena|2:15.338|[[File:MK8 Morton Icon.png|32px|link=Morton Koopa Jr.|Morton]][[File:TrispeederBodyMK8.png|32px|link=Tri-Speeder]][[File:MonsterTiresMK8.png|32px|Monster (tire)|Monster]][[File:MK8ThumbMortonSG.png|32px|link=Super Glider]]}}{{ghost|8DX <small>200cc</small>|Nin★Pavel|1:39.330|[[File:MK8DX Dry Bones Icon.png|32px|link=Dry Bones]][[File:MK8LightBluePFIcon.png|32px|link=Pipe Frame]][[File:WoodTiresMK8.png|32px|link=Wood]][[File:PlaneGliderMK8.png|32px|link=Plane Glider]]}}
|online_play=No longer available ([[Wii U]])<br>Available ([[Nintendo Switch|Switch]])
|sample=Shiho Fujii<br>[[File:MK8-Music-BoneDryDunes.oga]]<br>Frontrunning<br>[[File:WiiU_BoneDryDunes_Frontrunning.oga]]
|map=''Mario Kart 8'' / ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe''
<div style="white-space: nowrap;">[[File:MK8 Bone-Dry Dunes Map.png|frameless|upright=0.65]][[File:MK8DX Bone-Dry Dunes Map.png|frameless|upright=0.65]]</div>
}}
'''Bone-Dry Dunes''' (written as '''Bone Dry Dunes''' in the British English version) is the second race track of the [[Special Cup]] in ''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]''. This course takes place on a desert and canyon place with shifting sand rivers and bones. Several ships ridden by [[Shy Guy]]s and [[Toad (species)|Toad]]s sail through quicksand during the race, occasionally throwing out coins onto the track, similar to the train in {{classic-link|N64|Rainbow Road}}.

==Course layout==
[[File:MK8 Bone-Dry Dunes Starting Line.png|thumb|250px|left|The course as seen from the starting line]]
The course starts in an area with a small audience and tents. The road turns right before a sinuous section, and briefly splits into two paths (a ramp is placed between them). After a winding path, racers will find a wooden bridge which leads to a canyon filled with giant bones.

The road now is sandy, and begins with a right turn. The characters encounter a [[Bone Piranha Plant]] (which behaves just like a regular [[Piranha Plant]], biting whoever is near). The following area has two distinct road options: the one to the left keeps the sand ground, and features several more Bone Piranha Plants; the one to the right is an anti-gravity section where characters race along a wall made up of ribs, featuring some spin boosters. Both end with a glider segment, which takes racers across the starting straightaway and into a cave, with the mouth being a giant skull and hands resembling [[Dry Bowser]].

Entering the cave, there is a higher and a lower path to choose. The higher path is a narrow and rather short wooden catwalk, which is accessible via bouncing off a sand spout that may appear. [[Item Box]]es can be found on this path. The lower one is the soil of the cave. Inside it, some [[Dry Bones]] wander around on the road. A left turn marks the exit of the cave right before the finish line.

==Shortcuts==
*Players can use a [[Dash Mushroom|Mushroom]] to use the ramp between the two paths near the start of the track.
*To the left of the last curve, there is an opening between a line of bones which players can cut across via a Mushroom.

==Profiles==
===''Mario Kart 8''===
*'''''Mario Kart'' Facebook page (United States):''' ''Pardon our dust! Race along rivers of sand and bone-filled canyons in Bone Dry Dunes in Mario Kart 8 for Wii U.''<ref>MarioKartEN (August 18, 2014). [https://www.facebook.com/MarioKartEN/photos/563886363715961 ''Facebook'']. Retrieved June 29, 2023. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230605221654/https://www.facebook.com/MarioKartEN/photos/563886363715961 Archived] June 5, 2023, 22:16:54 UTC via Wayback Machine.)</ref>

===''[[Mario Kart 8 Original Soundtrack]]'' liner notes===
''We asked the guitarist to strum the strings in such a way as to create the atmosphere of a dry wind blowing across the desert. The violin and bass then combine to give a really emotional performance.''

==References to the ''Super Mario'' franchise==
*The pots on the course depict enemies, scenery, and coins from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''
*In one piece of fabric found in tents near the finish line, the [[Angry Sun]] enemy from ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' appears.
*The staff ghost for this course being [[Morton Koopa Jr.|Morton]] may reference his role as the boss of the desert world in ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' games.

==Gallery==
<gallery widths=150px>
MK8 Bone-Dry Dunes Course Icon.png|The course icon
MK8 Bone Dry Dunes Course Icon.png|The British English course icon
Bone-DryDunesStart.jpg|The start of the race
Bone-Dry Dunes MK8 Peach.png|[[Princess Peach|Peach]], driving on the course
Roy-SportBike.jpg|[[Roy]] drifts on the course's sandy terrain.
MK8 Bone-Dry Dunes Rosalina Sports Coupe.jpg|[[Rosalina]] races on the anti-gravity portion of the course.
Bone-DryBowser.jpg|The cave entrance in the shape of [[Dry Bowser]]
MK8 Bone-Dry Ruins Metal Mario and Dry Bones.jpg|A [[Dry Bones]], walking on the course
BoneDryDunesMK8.png|A released screenshot of the course, revealing the name of the course
Bone Dry Dunes MK8 Facebook Image.jpg|Postcard image from Facebook
Dry Bones stamp MK8.png|The [[Stamp (Mario Kart 8)|stamp]] obtained for beating the staff ghost at this course
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ホネホネさばく
|JapR=Hone Hone Sabaku
|JapM=Bone Bone Desert
|Chi=骨骨沙漠
|ChiR=Gǔ Gǔ Shāmò
|ChiM=Bone Bone Desert
|Dut=Dry Bowsers Woestijn
|DutM=Dry Bowser's Desert. This is the only name for the course that involves Dry Bowser.
|Fre=Désert Toussec
|FreM=All Dry Desert (can refer to ''Ossec'', Dry Bones' early French name)
|Ger=Knochentrockene Dünen
|GerM=Bone-Dry Dunes (''Knochentrocken'', meaning "bone-dry", is also Dry Bones' German name)
|Ita=Deserto di Tartosso
|ItaM=Dry Bones' Desert
|Kor=뼈다귀 사막
|KorR=Ppyeodagwi Samak
|KorM=Bone Desert
|Por=Dunas Caveirinha
|PorM=Dry Bones Dunes
|Rus=Дюны скелетов
|RusR=Dyuny skeletov
|RusM=Skeleton Dunes
|Spa=Dunas Huesitos
|SpaM=Dry Bones Dunes
}}

==References==
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{{MK race courses}}
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[[Category:Deserts]]
[[Category:Mario Kart 8 race courses]]
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[[it:Deserto di Tartosso]]